One might as well start to gather the hundred finest among the leaves of a forest, or to pick up the hundred most glittering grains among the sand on a beach.

He brought out some grain and said to his wife, "Give alms."

One day he went into the granary, and a hen followed him and ate the grain.

She was sure even then of this, that he wouldn't put to her a query about his former wife, that he took to-day no grain of interest in Mrs. Connery; that his interest, such as it wasand he couldn't look quite like that, to Julia Bride's expert perception, without something in the nature of a new onewould be a thousand times different.

You know they have found grains of wheat in the Egyptian mummy cases, which were laid away over three thousand years ago, and that these grains of wheat, under the new conditions, have sprouted and grown and shot up green stalks and borne plump seeds again.

The way they make this bread is as follows:From large round panniers filled with wheat they take out a handful at a time, sorting it most carefully and expeditiously, and throwing every defective grain into another basket.

How much more noble is such courage, how infinitely superior is such a warfare, one which mows down forest trees instead of men, which creates green pastures, broad meadows, and fields of waving grain, instead of smouldering cities, and desolated homes!

You farmers who raise only grain have got the work down to a science.

I observed to-day, that the common way of carrying home their grain here is in loads on horseback.

The winter snow is indeed such a ceiling, lasting half the year; while the pressed, shorn surface is made yet smoother by violent winds, armed with cutting sand-grains, that beat down any shoot that offers to rise much above the general level, and carve the dead trunks and branches in beautiful patterns.

"Behold, then, Aladdin's lamp," said the ancient personage, tendering a tiny vase hardly bigger than a pill-box, containing some grains of a coarse, rusty powder.

They had given up hope of keeping their landing place on the northern shores of the Dead Sea when we took Talat ed Dumm, and one hour after our infantry had planted themselves on the Hill of Blood we saw the enemy burning his boats, wharves, and storehouses at Rujm el Bahr, where he had expended a good deal of labour to put up buildings to store grain wanted for his army.

But although Robin laughed at the droll sight, he knew the wayfarer to be a certain rich corn engrosser of Worksop, who more than once had bought all the grain in the countryside and held it till it reached even famine prices, thus making much money from the needs of poor people, and for this he was hated far and near by everyone that knew aught of him.

" With these words he followed his companions to the monastery, while the thieves left the grain and went away, all the monks, of whom there were several hundred, doing homage to his conduct and courage.

The man who detects a new fact, a new property in a familiar substance, adds to the science of the age; but the man who expounds the whole system of the universe on the reports of others, unenlightened by new conceptions of his own, does not add a grain to the common store.

This first piece of gold is now in the possession of Mrs. Weimer, and weighs six pennyweights eleven grains.

Fronga is a town densely populated almost entirely by Shelouhs and Jews, lying about fifteen miles from the Atlas range upon an immense plain which produces the finest grain in Morocco.

One might as well try to count the grains of sand on the shore as the Herrings in the wide ocean.

By day I beat the piled-up hemp cut from the vega plain; By night, within the darkened mill, I ground for him the grain.

The fields were green with grass, or golden with ripening grain, over which passed a gentle breeze, raising waves upon the brilliant surface.

In a kindred spirit of fraternity, others laid out great farms in the wilds and planted the grain saved for their own bread; that there might be harvests for those who should follow them.

[Illustration] She asked of the farmer to sow her some grain, But the farmer he laughed till his sides ached again.

Provide a town not too far off (and yet not too near) where you can buy your flour and sell your grain.

Between each layer sprinkle a seasoning of salt, pepper, and, when liked, a few grains of cayenne.

Quantities of rice are grown here, and a singular method is adopted for separating the grain from the ear.